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News Release: BC Hydro pays $142.9 million in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes in 2004; City ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)

BC Hydro pays $142.9 million in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes in 2004; City of Merritt received $118,691

MERRITT – BC Hydro paid $118,691 in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes to the City of Merritt for the 2004 calendar year.

Province-wide, BC Hydro paid approximately $142.9 million in taxes and grants-in-lieu of general taxes for 2004, an increase of approximately $1.1 million over the total amount paid in the 2003 calendar year.

www.bchydro.bc.ca /news/2004/jul/release14306.html (205 words)

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For most of the period from 207 BC to early 10th century, it was under the rule of successive dynasties of China.

In 258 BC, a new kingdom called Ãu Láº¡c (from the union of the Ãu Viá»t and the Láº¡c Viá»t) was formed by Thá»¥c PhÃ¡n in North Vietnam.

Emperor Guangwu (January 15, 5 BC - March 29, 57), born Liu Xiu, was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, restorer of the dynasty in AD 25 and thus founder of the Later Han or Eastern Han (the restored Han Dynasty).

News Release: BC Hydro pays $142.9 million in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes in 2004; City of Duncan received $41,806

BC Hydro pays $142.9 million in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes in 2004; City of Duncan received $41,806

DUNCAN – BC Hydro paid $41,806 in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes to the City of Duncan for the 2004 calendar year.

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News Release: BC Hydro pays $142.9 million in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes in 2004; District of Port Edward received $156,726

BC Hydro pays $142.9 million in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes in 2004; District of Port Edward received $156,726

PORT EDWARD – BC Hydro paid $156,726 in school taxes and grants-in-lieu of general property taxes to the District of Port Edward for the 2004 calendar year.

www.bchydro.bc.ca /news/2004/jul/release14310.html (234 words)

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Its fertile territory was coveted by neighboring Syracuse and in 476 BC the Syracusan tyrant Hieron I removed the population of Katane to the inland city of Leontini.

On the fall of the Sicilian tyrannies in the late 460s BC, the alien population was expelled and the former inhabitants of Katane returned from exile in Leontini to reclaim their city, which now reverted to its original name.

This tetradrachm is from the beginning of this coinage and depicts on the obverse the local river god Amenanos in the guise of a man-headed bull.

The introduction into the Middle East of Greek culture, beginning with the conquests of Alexander the Great in 331 bc, put the indigenous cultures of the region on the defensive (see Hellenistic Age).

The Maccabean revolt of 165 to 142bc began as a civil war between Jewish Hellenizers and offended nativists; it ended as a successful war for Judean political independence from Syria.

Messianic-apocalyptic fervor increased when Judean political independence was brought to an end by Roman legions in the middle of the 1st centurybc and climaxed in the outbreak of an unsuccessful revolt against Rome in ad 66 to 70.

In 170 BC, when Antiochus was campaigning in Egypt, there was a rumor of the king's death, and Jason led a revolt, which brought Antiochus to Jerusalem, where his army proceeded to rob, pillage, rape, and enslave the people.

In 152 BC he became the first Hasmonean to take the roles of both ruler and priest, when he was offered the priesthood by Alexander Balas, a pretender to the Seleucid throne.

In 142BC, with the Syrians fighting among themselves again, he negotiated a treaty that made Judah a free nation again for the first time in more than 400 years.

Silver coin of Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Dynasty in 323 BC The empire was divided into three major portions, controlled by the descendants of Ptolemy Soter in Egypt, Antigonus Monopthalmos (literally "One-eyed") in Greece, and Seleucus in the Mideast.

The Seleucid Empire, was founded in 323 BC by Seleucus I Nicator and had its capital at Babylon.

The Hasmonean Jewish Kingdom was established in 166 BC, and in 142BC the Seleucids recognized Jewish autonomy.

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In 149 BC the tribune L. Calpurnius Piso proposed establishing a permanent court of senators for cases of extortion (quaestio de rebus repetundis), and its judgments could not be appealed to the people or the tribunes.

In any case, by the first centuryBC the Pharisee group had espoused a moderate, limited Hellenism so the earlier meaning of the name was obscured by a newly invented one.

Demetrius II Captured by the Parthians, 139 BC Demetrius II was captured in Babylonia by the Parthians in 139 BC and lived several years as a royal prisoner of war in Parthia.

The Ptolemies in the First CenturyBC, Down to 43 BC Fragmentation of the Ptolemaic Realm, 116 to 80 BC The Ptolemaic realm was divided into three sections at the death of Ptolemy VIII Physcon in 116 BC.

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207 BC Battle of Metaurus (south of Fano on Adriatic coast of Italy), 2nd Punic War (219-202) where Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero and Roman force of 50,000 defeated a Carthginian army (50,000 with war elephants) under Hasdrubal (brother of Hannibal) and was the turning point in expelling the Carthginians from Italy.

66 BC Pompey re-defeats Mithridates at Nicopolis (Armenia)

58 BC Julius Caesar appointed Proconsul-Governor of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul and Illyricum.

His forces beat Demetrius II in Lebanon and he was supposedly much loved by the populace (until he started robbing temples).

He is usually shown smiling on his coins, probably before he realized that he was going to be put to death by Cleopatra Thea's son, Antiochus VIII, in 123 BC.

www.grifterrec.com /coins/seleucia/seleucid2.html (418 words)

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Israel was conquered by Assyria between 740 and 721 BC., and by 715 BC.

Ezekiel to 574 BC., and Daniel to 534 BC.

However, OMRI, who reigned from 885 to 874 BC., was a vigorous and able king - although as wicked as the others - and his reign was regarded among the other nations of western Asia as the foundation upon which the national identity thereafter rested.

As a general of the army, he promoted the claims of Antiochus VI Dionysus,the infant son of Alexander Balas, but then in 142 deposed the child and himself seized power in Palestine where Demetrius II was unpopular for his oppressive treatment of the Jews.

Antiochus VI was kept alive in captivity until 138 BC.

However, internal strife led in 143 BC to the establishment of Hasmonean rule, and in 138 Diodotus was attacked and defeated in Antioch by Antiochus VII of Side.

In 143 (or 142) BC Simon Maccabeus, son of Mattathias (and brother of Judas Maccabeus), succeeded his brother Jonathan as leader of the Maccabean revolt against...

Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a 2nd-century-BC Seleucid king, desecrated the Temple in Jerusalem; a successful Jewish revolt under the Maccabees, a priestly family, resulted in its purification (164 BC) and in freedom from Syrian...

Under his reign the Hasmonean kingdom of Judaea in ancient Palestine attained power and great prosperity, and the Pharisees, a scholarly sect with popular backing, and the Sadducees, an aristocratic sect that comprised the priesthood, became well-defined religious parties.